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See Post-World War II 2nd 1686 Hong Kong, Italy Palestine: See Post-World War II Territorial Army [20] 4th/5th (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) (52nd Searchlight Regiment) 1921 Britain Transferred to the Royal Artillery, July 1940 and became 52nd Searchlight Regiment (Queen's Edinburgh, Royal Scots) 7th/9th (Highlanders) 1921 Britain, Western Front
Pages in category "Regiments of the British Army in World War II" The following 184 pages are in this category, out of 184 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Scottish bagpipes have been adopted in a number of countries, largely in imitation of the pipers of Highland regiments which served throughout the British Empire. Highland regiments were raised in a number of Commonwealth armies, often adopting formal honorary affiliations with Scottish regiments of the British Army.
78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot; 79th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery; 80th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery; 87th Regiment of Foot (Keith's Highlanders) 88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers) 91st (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served during the Second World War. It was raised on 2 September 1939, the day before war was declared, as part of the Territorial Army (TA) and served in the United Kingdom and later North-West Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.
This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, [1] together with the Royal Tank Regiment. [2]
Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments [22] Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments [23] [24] Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments [25] Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments [26] Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions [27] Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment [28] Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 ...
The armoured brigade group would have three armoured regiments, a motor battalion, an artillery regiment (including an anti-tank battery of 16 guns; either 2-pounders or 6-pounders) as well as its three batteries of 25-pounder gun-howitzers, a light anti-aircraft battery of 18 guns, a field squadron of Royal Engineers and various other ...